Mars or Bust

Of course, NASA may not be sending humans to Europa anytime soon (nor anywhere else), but Hollywood believes Europa may be a good backdro...

The NASA's 2013 budget was recently released and, surprise of surprises, Mars is on the cutting table.  It is not all bad news since th...

Here is a great image from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory : This artist concept depicts a quadruple-star system called HD 98800. Th...

A recent issue of Science News noted how scientists are now estimating that the Milky Way galaxy has 100 billion planets or more.  This wor...

We have heard a number of theories about comets and meteorites seeding life here on earth, and recently we saw even more evidence of outside...

While I wish our political discussions where geared towards Mars, it appears our moon is back on the table as the ultimate destination in th...

It’s another unexpected event in space exploration, always a risky business.  Rest assured that The Planetary Society will continue to pres...

We finished up 2011 with the biggest science stories , but what about the duds?  Fortunately, the magazine The Scientist came up with a lis...

London's Guardian newspaper recently posted The Year's 10 Biggest Stories in science.  Of these stories, four touched upon astro...

Yesterday Slate reported that Elon Musk is predicting that the first SpaceX mission to Mars could be as soon as 10 years from now.  Musk st...

I have been listening to Neil de Grasse Tyson on the StarTalk podcast and find that it is a fun mix of news, culture, science, and quite of...

The Curiosity rover is on its way to Mars after a successful NASA launch yesterday.  In about 8 and a half months the rover will start its ...

I have written in the past about a lack of vision in the U.S. space program, but I did not expect to write about the potential loss of fuel ...

Well, the good news is that Russia has now had it's second International Space Station (ISS) success.  The first was noted in my earlier...

Yesterday's launch of a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan has reestablished our link with the International Space Station.  The Russian resu...

The Wall Street Journal had a recent piece on Elon Musk, the South African born founder of SpaceX, Telsa, and SolarCity.  The article conta...

This past summer astronomers showcased a number of fascinating planetary discoveries, from diamonds in the sky to Star Wars-like home worlds...

While the United States recovers from problems with access to the International Space Station (ISS), yesterday China launched a mock compo...

In general, the public's mood about our moon has been "been there, done that."  The Apollo missions gave us the opportunity to...

So what are we to make of the August 24th failure of Blue Origin's spacecraft failure ?  We should not be surprised that spacecraft wi...